Friday, February 01, 2008

Well, thanks to the help of the best readers on the intrawebs (mine YAY!), I just realized my blog has been delisted from Google. Go ahead, go to Google. Type in 'ERV'. I used to be the top hit. Now, nada. Put in "http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/". Nada.

Try the same thing at Yahoo, and everything is fine.

Now, as much as I would like to blame this on Baby Casey and the DI, as the timing of this delisting is curious, my blog is still up. If there were some complaint (ie "She called me names and Im nice I volunteer at soup kitchens but she called me names Im kind!") my blog would have been suspended.

But another reason for delisting is when people hack your site and insert links to porn and crap, like what happened to Wes and Talk Origins. But Im on Blogger. If someone hacked this site, its Blogger/Googles fault, not mine. I dont run this shit.

And no one emailed me any kind of warning from Google.

Even though Im on Blogger.

They gots my email.

Oh well. While I would like *certain people* to *unleash their minions* to figure this out or throw a fit to get me back on *cough* because this is a pain in the ass, it doesnt really matter. I will be moving somewhere else soon anyway and reposting Classic ERVs.

21 comments:

You are the first on the search page but this is the quote with the heading "The ERV blogs page is all about attacking me personally-otherwise theres no substance to any of it other than trying to mock me and attack me..."

v.h. that might be cause by link descriptions (text used when linking to the site). Alternatively (and more likely), it's text quoted by ERV in one of her posts, which is displayed because it is currently given the greatest weight by the google algorithm.

Hey ERV, if you haven't already, I'd recommend signing up for Google Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/start/) It not only lets you see how Google sees your blog, it gives you ways to communicate with Google directly (which have more weight that just an email, since you can show that you are the owner of the blog in question).

Hi, I just read about your problem on Pharyngula and left a comment there. You seem to have used the meta-tag verification method for Google's webmaster tools, so it should be possible to add a description tag as well.

OK, using blogsearch.google.com, at 1724hrs GMT, searching for ERV I get:

Related Blogs: ERV - http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/

After that I get one of your blog articles regarding nuns.

Searching www.google.com for ERV I get:

ERVThe ERV blogs page is all about attacking me personally-otherwise theres no substance to any of it other than trying to mock me and attack me. ...endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/ - 113k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

As someone else mentioned, you may need to check your meta tags to change the description of your blog site. Note sure where Google picked the above from!

I see that Peggy has already mentioned the Google Webmaster tools.

I'm not sure what else to advise on, except to say that I added you to my blogroll a while back so you shouldn't completely disappear from Google's index!